Boston are gunning for a record 18th championship, while Dallas are taking inspiration from their 2011 triumph
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00:00 Every kid that plays basketball dream about this, so I was one of them.
00:04 [MUSIC]
00:31 If you wanna be one of the greats, right, to put on this uniform,
00:35 every great before you won a championship.
00:39 And that's what we try to play for every single season.
00:44 >> Ten long years, we are on the ride, baby.
00:46 >> We are on the ride, ten long years.
00:49 >> Plus 20 teams.
00:50 >> Plus 20 teams.
00:51 [MUSIC]
00:57 >> Anything's possible.
00:58 >> Anything's possible.
01:01 [MUSIC]
01:11 >> The things we kept coming back to, the things that we kept talking about the
01:17 entire year, the margins, the details, the fundamentals,
01:20 the way you go about executing at a high level.
01:22 >> I hate that I had to go through it.
01:24 I wish we would have won.
01:26 But I'm a firm believer in everything happens for a reason.
01:30 >> A different team, different coach,
01:33 two years later makes a pretty big difference.
01:36 [MUSIC]
01:46 >> Now Mavrick puts it up, puts it in.
01:50 >> Only fitting, Dirk Mavrick sealing the deal.
01:54 >> The Mavericks have scaled the NBA playoff mountain and have planted their
01:59 flag, they are the NBA champions for 2011.
02:03 [MUSIC]
02:09 >> It's an incredible thing to be able to hopefully achieve.
02:13 I know how to win.
02:16 I've done that since elementary school to the highest level.
02:23 I used to come to a lot of those games growing up, especially that year.
02:27 It was definitely great seeing them win a championship and
02:30 obviously it's kind of full circle for me having a kid coach me and
02:34 being here in Dallas and obviously contending for a title.
02:38 >> 27 point lead, down goes Johnson.
02:42 >> No.
02:44 >> They're shredding him.
02:46 >> No, he didn't.
02:48 >> Luka dances.
02:49 >> I always had that 20, 22 run, we had great chemistry.
02:53 We stayed together and I feel the same thing with this team.
02:57 We've been together for like four or five months and we made the NBA finals.
03:02 [MUSIC]
03:12 >> We have an opportunity to win a championship.
03:15 Two out of three years we've gone to the Western Conference finals.
03:19 Some would say that's pretty cool.
03:21 Some will say that that's failure.
03:24 We had a plan.
03:24 You guys just didn't know it.
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